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The H Roundup for the week ending 23 July

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.

Top news

This week was all about Linux with the arrival of version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, Microsoft's happy birthday to Linux video and progress on real-time support for the kernel. Also: Firefox planned going multi-process, VirtualBox 4.1 arrived, Microsoft say CodePlex and GitHub are what open source developers prefer, Google to support HTC in its fight with Apple, Process Explorer reached version 15, a new Skype XSS vulnerability and an arrest in the German police hacker case.

Feature articles

The H took an in-depth look at what's new in version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, as well as the latest 5.7 release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Dj Walker-Morgan examined why the Harmony project is off-key, while Thorsten Leemhuis' Kernel Log discussed the latest problems with UEFI and Linux.